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2026
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Netherlands
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Johan Ormel is affiliated with the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. Their main field of study is psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their body of work includes research on child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health treatment and access, and personality disorders and psychopathology, among other related topics.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of mental health and developmental psychology. Notable papers include:

  • More treatment but no less depression: The treatment-prevalence paradox, 2021, Clinical Psychology Review
  • On Imbalance of Impulse Control and Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Risk: An Intra-individual Developmental Test of the Dual Systems and Maturational Imbalance Models, 2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • The association of developmental trajectories of adolescent mental health with early-adult functioning, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Low status, humiliation, dopamine and risk of schizophrenia, 2023, Psychological Medicine
  • Annual Research Review: Stability of psychopathology: lessons learned from longitudinal population surveys, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Their research topics emphasize developmental trajectories in mental health, adolescent risk behavior, and the long-term functioning linked to early mental health status. The works also include explorations of treatment approaches and the persistence of mental health challenges over time.

Throughout their career, they have frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Albertine J. Oldehinkel
  • Michael VonKorff
  • Steven D. Hollon
  • Anoek M. Oerlemans
  • Dennis Raven

Johan Ormel has published in several academic journals known within psychology and psychiatry fields, such as:

  • Clinical Psychology Review
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • PLoS ONE
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Their research contributions span multiple subfields, including clinical psychology with 19 publications, social psychology with 9, and experimental and cognitive psychology with 6. Additional work intersects with general health professions and pharmacology.

Main topics they've focused on comprise:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

Best Publications

  • Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys.

    Demyttenaere K;Bruffaerts R;Posada-Villa J;Gasquet I

  • Grading the severity of chronic pain.

    Michael Von Korff;Johan Ormel;Francis J. Keefe;Samuel F. Dworkin

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Prevalence of mental disorders in Europe: Results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project

    J Alonso;M C Angermeyer;S Bernert;R Bruffaerts

  • Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Katie A. McLaughlin;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber

  • A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in different groups of Dutch subjects

    Ph. Spinhoven;J. Ormel;P. P. A. Sloekers;G. I. J. M. Kempen

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • The global burden of mental disorders : An update from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys

    Ronald C. Kessler;Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola;Jordi Alonso;Somnath Chatterji

  • An international study of the relation between somatic symptoms and depression.

    Gregory E. Simon;Michael VonKorff;Marco Piccinelli;Claudio Fullerton

  • Cross-national prevalence and correlates of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    J. Fayyad;R. De Graaf;R. Kessler;J. Alonso

  • Cross-National Associations Between Gender and Mental Disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Soraya Seedat;Kate Margaret Scott;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Patricia Berglund

  • Prognostic association of depression following myocardial infarction with mortality and cardiovascular events: a meta-analysis

    Joost P van Melle;Peter de Jonge;Titia A Spijkerman;Jan G P Tijssen

  • Common Mental Disorders and Disability Across Cultures: Results From the WHO Collaborative Study on Psychological Problems in General Health Care

    J Ormel;M Vonkorff;Tb Ustun;Stefano Pini

  • The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA): rationale, objectives and methods.

    B.W.J.H. Penninx;A.T.F. Beekman;J.H Smit;F.G. Zitman

  • Bullying and victimization in elementary schools: a comparison of bullies, victims, bully/victims, and uninvolved preadolescents.

    René Veenstra;Siegwart Lindenberg;Albertine J. Oldehinkel;Andrea F. de Winter

  • Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

    Louisa Degenhardt;Wai Tat Chiu;Nancy Sampson;Ronald C. Kessler

  • Twelve-Month Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Suicide Attempts in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys

    Guilherme Borges;Matthew K. Nock;Josep Maria Haro Abad;Irving Hwang

  • HEALTH-CARE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSIVE AND ANXIETY DISORDERS IN PRIMARY-CARE

    Gregory Simon;Johan Ormel;Michael VonKorff;William Barlow

  • Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative.

    Philip S Wang;Matthias C Angermeyer;Guilherme Borges;Ronny Bruffaerts

  • Neuroticism and common mental disorders : Meaning and utility of a complex relationship

    Johan Ormel;Bertus F Jeronimus;Roman Kotov;Harriëtte Riese

  • Disability and quality of life impact of mental disorders in Europe: results from the European Study of the Epidemiology of Mental Disorders (ESEMeD) project.

    J Alonso;M C Angermeyer;S Bernert;R Bruffaerts

Frequent Co-Authors

Albertine J. Oldehinkel
Albertine J. Oldehinkel University Medical Center Groningen
Frank C. Verhulst
Frank C. Verhulst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Harriette Riese
Harriette Riese University Medical Center Groningen
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh Utrecht University
Anja C. Huizink
Anja C. Huizink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ronald C. Kessler
Ronald C. Kessler Harvard University
René Veenstra
René Veenstra University of Groningen
Jordi Alonso
Jordi Alonso Pompeu Fabra University
Willem A. Nolen
Willem A. Nolen University Medical Center Groningen
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen

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